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Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico

MOUNTATN MEADOWS 1857 enry came home from his mission afker three years finding the situation in the peacefiil settlement of Cedar City very much changed. Aside from the fact that Brigham Young advised hern to move the site of the town once more, there had been a great :rought, and there were other disconcerting things that had taken ~lace. Henry had heard about them, but had not realized their fiill cope. While in Salt Lake City Henry reported to Brigham Young bout seeing U.S. Govemment Troops on their way to Salt Lake City vith the "intention of killing and destroying the saints of the Lord." Rehuning missionaries reported the murder of Parley P. Pratt near yort Srnith, Arkansas, by Hector McLean, a Unitarian rninister who esented his wife's conversion to the new and unpopular Mormon aith. He transferred his hatred of the Mormons toward Parley P. 9-attwho was one of the most brilliant products of nineteenth-century Aormonism. What happened to Pratt in Arkansas afYected many Aormons personaiiy. His death, the first details of which filtered into me southern settlements during the closing days of July 1857, inspired sworn pledges to avenge his death, as well as to avenge the deaths of other Saints in Illinois and Missouri. It brought a shudder of horror throughout the temtory, kindled fires of resentment, and produced an
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MOUNTATN MEADOWS 1857 enry came home from his mission afker three years finding the situation in the peacefiil settlement of Cedar City very much changed. Aside from the fact that Brigham Young advised hern to move the site of the town once more, there had been a great :rought, and there were other disconcerting things that had taken ~lace. Henry had heard about them, but had not realized their fiill cope. While in Salt Lake City Henry reported to Brigham Young bout seeing U.S. Govemment Troops on their way to Salt Lake City vith the "intention of killing and destroying the saints of the Lord." Rehuning missionaries reported the murder of Parley P. Pratt near yort Srnith, Arkansas, by Hector McLean, a Unitarian rninister who esented his wife's conversion to the new and unpopular Mormon aith. He transferred his hatred of the Mormons toward Parley P. 9-attwho was one of the most brilliant products of nineteenth-century Aormonism. What happened to Pratt in Arkansas afYected many Aormons personaiiy. His death, the first details of which filtered into me southern settlements during the closing days of July 1857, inspired sworn pledges to avenge his death, as well as to avenge the deaths of other Saints in Illinois and Missouri. It brought a shudder of horror throughout the temtory, kindled fires of resentment, and produced an
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